Legal complete monster

Not like that! Get your mind out of the gutter. It just in my story i'm writing the villain as this city official that has to be legally untouchable. What could I have him do that makes it's absolutely your meant to hate them but still sticking to the letter of the law

edited 24th Dec '10 3:43:11 PM by joeyjojo

Use the law to pick on innocent, helpless people?

Make him be involved in banking. That should do the trick. ¬_¬

Isn't this more of a writer's block question?

Happens all the time, just make him so Rich that nobody will prosecute him because he's that powerful.

1. Make him a dictator, or working for a dictator, and thus immune to prosecution.
2. If you must set this in a democratic nation, make the city ridiculously corrupt.
3. If you can't make the city corrupt, have him be head of the mob, and thus difficult to prosecute without "accidents".
4. If the things he's doing absolutely must really be legal, try things along the line of the Uriah Gambit. (Unfortunately, this is difficult for someone who has no military authority, but you might be able to pull it.)

Just look at some examples in Real Life.

Well, you can do a lot of mean things without ever technically hurting anyone. An Obstructive Beaurocrat, or a Corrupt Corporate Executive, for example, can do some very cruel things without breaking the law.

edited 24th Dec '10 7:28:37 PM by Ettina

Make him be a Lawyer.

to elaborate: a Lawyer who bails out the most gruesome offenders. Rapist? He doesn't care, he just wants to win the case and celebrate it. That stuff, you know?

Make him ban love through the legal system:

That's what a lawyer is supposed to do. They are amoral by design.

Have him own a whole heap of really bad housing and ruthlessly exploit the poor people living there? Have him own a company that employs sweat-shop like labour?

@Zhe: Eh, I wouldn't call that a Complete Monster, or even a villain.

It's not a sexy thing to do, but even rapists and murderers need defense lawyers for the integrity of the system to be preserved. The US legal system is based on not being convicted of any crime the government hasn't damn well proven you committed, and you can't really force the government to prove you did it beyond a reasonable doubt without a defense lawyer there to create a reasonable doubt for you.

And of course, any defense lawyer that's gotten some guilty people aquitted has almost certainly also saved plenty of innocent people.

But this is not really on topic, and this is OTC.

@OP: Make him create, own or manage the next Apple/Google/Microsoft. There, problem solved and you don't need to get messy with lawyers that much.

Have him mismanage and do all sorts of policy shit, as the head of a mega-corporation.

I want to kill already.

Have him be the head(CEO or regional head) of a corporation so big that it owns or is funneling money into tons of local government level agencies?

@Black Humor: I mean something different, more like a lawyer who doesn't CARE to for example, get a Rapist free, even if he knows he's guilty and will do it again. Someone who does not see anything wrong with people he knows are guilty running around freely because of him.

Sometimes i just don't know the right words to explain what i mean, especially in english.

There is the 'office psychopath', a bully who works his way into the company's political system and corrupts it, becoming untouchable due to his network of croneys and allies. Methods include promoting people because they are useful to him rather than good at their jobs, using the rumour system or planting evidence to destroy competition and flush out non-croneys, using official and unofficial power to terrify everyone, even persecuting non-allies until the stress kills them or drives them to suicide.

if you Google workplace bullying stories you can net yourself some horrifying real-life High Octane Nightmare Fuel .

Also: a child abuser working in child services? Or he finds shelter for batteres wives, then sells information about their location to the (potentially murderous) husbands, or even kills them for kicks and profit. Taking it Up To Eleven, he could even use his position and power to run a society of vampires, sex slave owners, paedophiles and so on. (Though I suggest you keep the story small and personal-the more the reader experiences this guy, the more of a complete monster he'll become).

It's not that hard. Look at Akumetsu. Plenty of perfectly legal bad guys.

The office psychopath type sounds spot on (pedophilic vampires is a bit OTT), What I was trying to go for was the worst example of a human being possible in day to day life.

edited 28th Dec '10 4:22:11 AM by joeyjojo

Make him an agent for some poorly controlled, secret national agency. In the words of George White, who was in charge of the infamous MK-ULTRA project,

I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?

edited 28th Dec '10 5:37:02 AM by Carciofus

Glad I could help joeyjojo. Reading some of the stories at http://www.overcomebullying.org/workplace-bullying-stories.html showed me you could have a complete monster without him having to murder, rape etc. Probably helped that they tended to be Karma Houdidi - they're so hard to dislodge, the company often goes bankrupt from their mismanagement first. It's a happy ending if the victim can just escape :(

It's even worse in government positions because they tend to old-fashioned cultures, which favours bullies more, plus no matter how bad the corruption and destroyed employees costs, government subsidies keep the organisation going.

Happy writing!

edited 28th Dec '10 2:38:07 PM by betaalpha

Thanks again. Definitely some stories I'm going to use. You would be surprised at how much of a monster you can be by just being a mismanaging office bully. which is what I want for my Big Bad. Think hitler, but without the imagination.